Friday, October 30, 2015

An unusual old Halloween custom involved taking a candle and looking into a mirror to see your future husband's face. This postcard is one of a series illustrating that tradition. This card appears to show the culmination of the ritual, when the couple has met and kissed.

Listen, Little One!

On Halloween take a candle

and look into a mirror, then

over your shoulder you'll see

your future hubby's face –of course this

affair must be prearranged to be successful for the Witches are

busy and can't tend to every body

O. U. KID

When I searched for information about this Halloween custom and the expression "O. U. Kid." I found a blog with several posts displaying postcards and discussing these subjects. Instead of repeating the information, I will give you the links to those posts. There are many more postcards there and the posts are well worth reading.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Located on U.S. Highways 11 and 90 in suburban New Orleans, 5 Miles East of Canal St.

Widely known for its excellent cuisine, specializing in seafoods of all kinds, choice western steaks, and New Orleans fried chicken. Expertly mixed drinks served at untra modern bar. Home of the famous New Orleans "Poor Boy." Open 24 hours.

Friday, October 23, 2015

CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OFTHE 1915 PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONin San Francisco&THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1939-40 WORLD'S FAIRSin New York and San FranciscoLook for more World's Fair Postcards on the Postcardy Blog on Fridays.To view past World's Fair posts, click here or on the exposition label.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Located just one mile from the business center of Sarasota, Florasota gardens faces quaint Hudson Bayou overlooking magnificent Sarasota Bay. The streets and grounds are elegantly landscaped with luxuriant tropical palms, trees, shrubs, and flowers of untold varieties. A fresh water swimming pool fed by a continuous flow of artesian wells overlooks a tropical lagoon where white swans, geese, ducks, and unusual bird life abound.

Friday, October 16, 2015

The real photo postcard above has no identifying information. I bought it because it is a classic example of a portrait of stair step children. The term stair step children sometimes refers to children of a family who are spaced closely in age. Its meaning is more obvious when the children are spaced fairly evenly, but farther apart. When the children are lined up standing from youngest to oldest, or shortest to tallest, they resemble stair steps

Below is a family portrait I found on the Internet. It was posted on a Polish blog here, along with some other old pictures of children. There are seven steps here--five children and two parents.

is an artistically designed and completely furnished residence built entirely of Redwood. In its interior finish it displays many new and beautiful treatments of the wood. Do not fail to see it.

Panama-Pacific Exposition Grounds - San Francisco - 1915

CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OFTHE 1915 PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONin San Francisco&THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1939-40 WORLD'S FAIRSin New York and San FranciscoLook for more World's Fair Postcards on the Postcardy Blog on Fridays.To view past World's Fair posts, click here or on the exposition label.

Friday, October 9, 2015

I am calling these postcards "Portraits of a Boy" for lack of a better description. There is no information on the backs of these cards, so I have no idea who or where the people are. I was reminded of these postcards by this week's Sepia Saturday 300 prompt.

I bought the postcard above because I thought it looked kind of interesting. The photo doesn't look like either a typical studio photo or a typical
home photo. It looks like the
photographer tried to make something similar to a studio portrait at
home and wasn't entirely successful..I also was intrigued by the surroundings and the way the boy is standing on "something" to make him tall enough to pose with his arm on the table.

The center picture on the back wall appears to be the same boy at a slightly younger age. The wallpaper has an unusual forest-like pattern. The small rug is placed on a plaid floor covering and also looks unusual. It appears to be a hooked imitation of an animal skin rug.

I was really surprised to find the second photo below years later and in a different place. I seem to remember that there were also some other cards with variations of this boy in the same surroundings. This photo pictures the boy between an older man and a woman, presumably family members. The boy appears to have some foliage or feathers growing out of the tip of his head!

In both of these photos, the details of the boy are washed out by the strong light coming from the right, and.the image itself is tilted. Both photos look amateurish, but I think they are more interesting than the typical "good" photo.

This Exhibit is made entirely of soap, was three months in process of manufacture, required over thirty thousand pounds of soap to make it and weighs as it stands over seven tons.

CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OFTHE 1915 PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONin San Francisco&THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1939-40 WORLD'S FAIRSin New York and San FranciscoLook for more World's Fair Postcards on the Postcardy Blog on Fridays.To view past World's Fair posts, click here or on the exposition label.

Sunday, October 4, 2015

The Bevo Mill was erected in 1916 by the late August A. Busch who with his architect spent a year in Holland gathering architectur4al Flemish modes and designs from which this Restaurant of national reputation was created. The two tile OLD W2ORLD scenes just inside entrance are a work of art and the gnomes supporting the arches were purchased at the Paris Exposition.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Above is a postcard advertising Egg-O-See cereal. It is a souvenir from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition which was held in Jamestown, Virginia to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. They must have given away a lot of these postcards — they are still fairly easy to find more than 100 years later.

A monotone version of the same image was used in the magazine ad shown below. Egg-O-See was a whole wheat cereal. The manufacturer made a lot of fantastic claims in the ad that would not be allowed in cereal ads today. It was even claimed that Egg-O-See kept the blood cool, making it an ideal summer food!

Still another ad stated "Egg-O-See is recognized as the leading flaked cereal food of America" and described the manufacturing process as follows:

There
is no food product that contains so many of the elements necessary to
health and proper nourishment as the whole wheat grain, properly cooked.
Egg-O-See is made from the whole grain of the the very best white wheat
grown. It is first thoroughly steam-cooked, with every sanitary
precaution, and then it is flaked and crisped to a delicious brown, in
ovens specially made for this purpose so that every package is exactly
the same. That is scientific food making; the Egg-O-See way. (source)